Back in the early 90s my dad worked for a large yellow and black company and there was a massive union strike that went on for months. My dad and the other office workers were pulled into the factories on a rotational basis to keep things running. The machine that he worked on had been set to the slowest possible speed by the previous (union) worker. Once my dad learned how to run it he was producing parts almost twice as fast.
The workers on strike would also write letters to the newspaper with these ridiculous claims. One guy said that [big evil company] had fired him for fixing a poster on a bulletin board that had fallen down. Another guy claimed he was fired for picking a tomato in his garden.
Needless to say, I don't exactly have a super positive view of unions....
Back in the early 90s my dad worked for a large yellow and black company and there was a massive union strike that went on for months. My dad and the other office workers were pulled into the factories on a rotational basis to keep things running. The machine that he worked on had been set to the slowest possible speed by the previous (union) worker. Once my dad learned how to run it he was producing parts almost twice as fast.
The workers on strike would also write letters to the newspaper with these ridiculous claims. One guy said that [big evil company] had fired him for fixing a poster on a bulletin board that had fallen down. Another guy claimed he was fired for picking a tomato in his garden.
Needless to say, I don't exactly have a super positive view of unions....